The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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